Beulah Bible

Published 9:05 am, Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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Graveside services for Beulah Eugenia Hammond Sykes Bible, 88, were held Tuesday at Dreamland Cemetery with Rev. Gayle Bowen, associate pastor of First Baptist Church of Canyon, officiating. Arrangements were by Brooks Funeral Directors. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at College Heights Baptist Church in Alamosa, Colo.

Mrs. Bible, formerly of Canyon, died July 23, 2014, at San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center in Alamosa, Colo.

She was born Oct. 5, 1925, to John Locke Hammond and Florence Belle Anthony Hammond in Tulia. She had been a resident of Alamosa County since 1971.

Her parents and both of her husbands, Ernest Tilman Sykes and Billy George Bible, preceded her in death.

Beulah was raised in the Panhandle of Texas, attending a one-room school near Happy, until the age of 10. She then attended school in Canyon, graduating in 1942. She received a degree in education from West Texas Normal College, now West Texas A&M University, in Canyon in 1946. She taught school until marrying in 1947.

Beulah was married to Ernest Sykes for 13 years. They had five children and lived in Canyon, Phoenix, Ariz., Albuquerque, N.M., and Billings, Mont. In 1960, she and the children moved to Amarillo.

She married Billy Bible in 1962 and moved to Canyon. Billy and Beulah had one son.

Beulah was a member of College Heights Baptist Church in Alamosa. She played the piano and organ, taught Sunday school, managed the church library and was the church secretary for many years. She was also a member of Gideons Auxiliary & Eastern Star. She loved to travel and make new friends. She has been a faithful and loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend to all she met. She will be very much missed.

Survivors include a sister, Martha Warren of Amarillo; all six of her children and their spouses, Charles and Lisa Sykes of Alamosa, Colo., Judith and Richard Cummins of Bryan, Martha and George Butz of Appleton, Wis., Melanie and Earl Shook of Greenville, Cheryl and Johnny Dotson of Georgetown and George and Joan Bible of Chesterfield, Mo; 24 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom adored their Gigi.

Memorials may be made to Gideons International or the charity of one’s choice.